Betty MacDonald Quotes
Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.
Betty MacDonald
Quotes to Explore
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
Imelda Staunton
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It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
Samuel Goldwyn
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In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.
Om Puri
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I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.
Omari Hardwick
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Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
Vanessa Bayer
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Ideology is a system of beliefs, held in common by the members of a collectivity.
Talcott Parsons
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A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.
Art Spiegelman
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That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come into any sort of open and fair competition with them, seems contrary to all experience.
Adam Smith
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The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.
Clayton Christensen
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I think one's relationship with one's vulnerability is a very delicate and precious relationship. Most people try to hide, disguise that vulnerability, and in doing that, you, I think, diminish a great source of power.
Philip Schultz
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The law seemed to be always what I came back to. I have never, one day in my life as a lawyer, regretted my decision to become a lawyer.
Charles T. Canady
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I was never in an improv group. But when I went to school, we would do it all day long with friends, not knowing what it was called.
Christopher Guest
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My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.
Joan Miro
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We only get 60 years, if we're really lucky, as adults on earth, and why not try to wake up every day and learn something and talk to people?
Anthony Doerr
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They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.
James F. Cooper
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My entire philosophy of teaching is based on the notion that when an artist finds a certain process really effortless, that's probably what he or she should choose to do. So often, students take the opposite tack; they have no use for the skills that come easily to them.
Marilyn Minter
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I learned so much about being an actor by being a director. More than I ever thought I would.
Chris Lowell
